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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money)
• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447040122394 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • 60013@mail.com
  • magrethbkazim25@uku.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Magret Kazim" <mhbk26@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: magretkazim@o2.pl
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:11:23 +0000
Subject: YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE.

I AM CONTACTING YOU WITH ALL DUE RESPECT SIR AND NEVER YOU ENTERTAIN ANY
FEAR IN THIS TRANSACTION, FOR THIS IS REAL AND GENUINE. ALL I NEED IS
HONESTY AND YOUR CAPABILITY TO HANDLE THIS PROJECT ON MY FAMILY BEHALF.

Dear Beloved One,
Your first reaction to this mail will be total rejection, scare and may be
unbelief, owing largely to the atrocities people commit these days on the
internet. But this mail comes from a devastated, sorrowful and emotional
ladened soul that needs compassion from a kind and good spirited person to
wipe away my tears, perhaps when I am gone beyond this sinful world by
investing jointly as partners in your country. I am Mrs. Magret H.B. Kazeem
. I am the above named person. I am married to Dr. Idris Kazeem Barker who
was formerly an assistant to the secretary general of Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries "OPEC". He has worked with this organization
for nine years before he died in the year 2002, as result of our only son
brutal murder in Saudi Arabia by an unknown gun men.

He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Since his
death I decided never to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home
which the my culture is against.
However, the most painful and annoying part of it is that my husband's
relatives has been on my neck. They said I was behind my husband death which
is never true. They sent me packing and threw me out of my matrimonial home
which I have suffered for with my late husband for so many years. I have
nowhere to go to, so I decide to go back to my mother land to stay with my
family to get my self organised and carter for my children. Before husband
died, He made me to understand that he deposited the sum of $32 Million
(Thirty two Million U.S. Dollars) when he was still with the secretary of
OPEC with a finance house in Oversea. Please Sir,I hereby request for your
urgent ssistance to help my family in investing the monies as a partnership
investment with your company or any investment that both of us will benefit
from it. Presently, this money is still under the safe keeping of the
finance house in Oversea.

I dont want my husbands relatives to know about this development. Please
tell me in confidence, can you handle it? Can you invest this huge amount of
money successfully onbehalf of my family? Have you ever handle such amount
of money before? How old are you? Please advise most urgently.
In a short while, My Eldest Daughter who is studying in europe will meet
with you in the finance house office that is close to you for easy and quick
transfer. She is assisting me to facilitate this transaction and both of you
will make arrangements to have this funds transferred through a nominated
joint account which you will both open for the money transfer. You will need
to meet with her as soon as possible. With God all things are possible. As
soon as I receive your reply,I will issue you a letter of authority that
will empower you as the original- beneficiary of this fund with other
related documents. Also i will forward mine and your personal information to
you and to the Finance house in Oversea, so that they will contact you as
the beneficiary of this fund before going their with my daughter to claim
the fund /transfering the fund into your nominated BankAccount in your
country.

Please reply through any of this mails below:

Email Office: 60013@mail.com
Email Office: magretkazim@o2.pl
Email Personal: magretkazim@walla.com
Email Personal: magrethbkazim25@uku.co.uk

Yours in Sincerely,

Mrs. Magret H.B. Kazeem.
Tell: +44-70-4012-2394.

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The contents of this e-mail are strictly confidential. This e-mail is meant
for the addressee only. Should this e-mail have been received erroneously
please discard it.
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